![]() It's all happening so fast for the youngster, but his parents and teacher said they're being careful not to overwhelm Liam with the pressures of competition. "I’m there to show music to everybody else, to the world, not to compete and be stressful and breathing so heavily," he recalled. "There’s like red chairs and Elton John's piano is there," Liam said, adding he plans to get a selfie on stage.The London venue seats more than 5,000 people, but Liam said he's not nervous, because of advice from his mom. That honour came with an invitation to perform at the Musikverein in Vienna and at Royal Albert Hall in London. Liam was recently amongst the winners of the Grand Prize Virtuoso, an international music competition. Liam Ng and his dad Angus during an interview with CTV News Edmonton. ![]() The English-born girl is a composer, pianist and violinist. "Fantastic boy, very talented, and he has a wonderful family who support him," said Svitlana Remniakova-Ostrovska, Liam’s music instructor. On 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley interviews 12-year-old musical prodigy Alma Deutscher. "We would have some toy instruments and, amazingly, he would actually be able to play out a melody," explained Liam's dad Angus.īuilding on his natural talent, Liam practices at least two hours every day and has music lessons twice a week. When jazz great Wynton Marsalis first heard Joey Alexander play the piano, he was blown away. ![]() "When I was three I really liked music and then at five and three quarters I just did violin lessons," Ng told CTV News Edmonton. So how did she do it Child composer Alma Deutscher, left, and her sister Helen Credit: David Bachar Haggai Hitron Follow First, a suggestion. While most eight-years-olds are attending Grade 3 this week, Liam Ng is in Brussels, Belgium preparing for performances in Vienna, Austria and London, England. A Child Music Prodigys Parents Reveal Her Secret 10-year-old Alma Deutscher has been composing since she was 6. "I'm having a good time wherever I go.An Edmonton boy with fast fingers and a great ear for music is quickly becoming an internationally-recognized musical prodigy. But I'm making up for it now," she says with a wide smile. But she took time to chronicle his horrific abuse in her autobiography Forbidden Childhood. "And that was what I did eventually, but I was 19 when I did it."Īfter Slenczynska's father died in 1951, her career flourished without him, as she made well-received recordings for the Decca label beginning in 1956. "I dreamed of running away from home," she recalls. Remembering 60 Minutes producer Katy Textor Whitaker doesnt just play music, he plays with it. ![]() "My only thought was to please my father and escape the magic stick." That "magic stick" was an 18-inch wooden shovel handle that Slenczynska's father used to beat her. "I wasn't allowed to think of myself," Slenczynska says. Slenczynska absorbed much from the great European pianists but her most consequential teacher was her father, a failed musician hell-bent on making a star out of his daughter even at the cost of her childhood. Czerny transmitted his knowledge and appreciation of Beethovens music to his pupil Franz. At 97, she can still make Chopin's chords shake with thunder. Also on the program was Beethovens Symphony in B-Flat Major, Opus 60. "The most important thing I learned was how to make the music carry a long, musical line," she says, moving over to the piano to demonstrate how to measure out those lines in terms of the climax points in Chopin's dramatic Ballade No. But that's not the only advice Slenczynska picked up from the famed Russian. On a similar note though, I've noticed its a guarantee that on any prodigy video (where like a 3 yo kid is actually doing something prodigy-like), amidst the wasteland of marginally literate and coherent youtube comments, there will always be some threatened/insecure older person who will say something like 'This kid actually has his wrist. ![]()
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